Real Estate Private Equity

In its prime, private equity dominated headlines as financiers armed with billions in debt financing took over massive companies, vanquished management, repurposed employees, and then sold it back to the market for billions of profit. But there were billion dollar flops too (Caesars Entertainment Corp. and TXU), and the biggest PE firms switched their investment strategy. Ten billion dollar plus deals are a rare breed anymore. But private equity is here to stay in another way, and in another asset class: the permanent capital that is real estate.

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Oliver Wright is an international lawyer, financier, and published author. He is the Founder and CEO of Vanquish Merchant Bank. His writings appear in journals such as the Harvard Journal of International Press-Politics. For six years Oliver was an international litigator and corporate attorney practicing cross-border mergers and acquisitions at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the top ranked litigation firm in the country. Oliver Wright holds dual Master and Doctor of Law degrees in International and Comparative Law from Cornell Law School, where he graduated with honors and was Editor of the Cornell Law Review. He was class major valedictorian at UCLA, where he graduated summa cum laude, phi beta kappa with a BA in Communications Studies.